EP2777234B1 - Anfangssuche- und nachbarsuchealgorithmen für drahtlose netzwerke - Google Patents

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EP2777234B1
EP2777234B1 EP12791631.0A EP12791631A EP2777234B1 EP 2777234 B1 EP2777234 B1 EP 2777234B1 EP 12791631 A EP12791631 A EP 12791631A EP 2777234 B1 EP2777234 B1 EP 2777234B1
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  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more specifically, to algorithms for initial acquisition of a wireless network and a neighbor search.
  • Wireless communication networks are widely deployed to provide various communication services such as voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, etc. These wireless networks may be multiple-access networks capable of supporting multiple users by sharing the available network resources. Examples of such multiple-access networks include Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) networks, Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) networks, Orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA) networks, and Single-Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) networks.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • OFDMA Orthogonal FDMA
  • SC-FDMA Single-Carrier FDMA
  • a wireless communication network may include a number of base stations that can support communication for a number of user equipments (UEs).
  • UE user equipments
  • a UE may communicate with a base station via the downlink and uplink.
  • the downlink (or forward link) refers to the communication link from the base station to the UE
  • the uplink (or reverse link) refers to the communication link from the UE to the base station.
  • a base station may transmit data and control information on the downlink to a UE and/or may receive data and control information on the uplink from the UE.
  • a transmission from the base station may observe interference due to transmissions from neighbor base stations.
  • a transmission from the UE may cause interference to transmissions from other UEs communicating with the neighbor base stations. The interference may degrade performance on both the downlink and uplink.
  • US2011/103534 describes a method and apparatus for frequency offset estimation and cell search in radio communication systems.
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications.
  • the method generally includes sampling a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence, analyzing the sampled sequence to detect a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) in a current half-frame, calculating SNR metrics based on the detected PSS, combining the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous half-frames, analyzing the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information, and analyzing the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS).
  • PSS primary synchronization sequence
  • SSS secondary synchronization sequence
  • the apparatus generally includes means for sampling a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence, means for analyzing the sampled sequence to detect a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) in a current half-frame, means for calculating SNR metrics based on the detected PSS, means for combining the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous half-frames, means for analyzing the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information, and means for analyzing the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS).
  • PSS primary synchronization sequence
  • SSS secondary synchronization sequence
  • the apparatus generally includes at least one processor configured to sample a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence, analyze the sampled sequence to detect a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) in a current half-frame, calculate signal-to-noise ratio (SNK) metrics based on the detected PSS, combine the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics based on PSS detected from one or more previous half-frames, analyze the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information, and analyze the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS); and a memory coupled with the at least one processor.
  • PSS primary synchronization sequence
  • SNK signal-to-noise ratio
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer program product for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon.
  • the instructions are generally executable by one or more processors for sampling a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence, analyzing the sampled sequence to detect a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) in a current half-frame, calculating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) metrics based on the detected PSS, combining the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics based on PSS detected from one or more previous half-frames, analyzing the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information, and analyzing the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS).
  • PSS primary synchronization sequence
  • SNR signal-to-noise ratio
  • a base station may send a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS).
  • PSS primary synchronization signal
  • SSS secondary synchronization signal
  • the synchronization signals may be used by user equipments (UEs) for cell detection and acquisition.
  • UEs user equipments
  • a typical searching operation may involve first locating the PSS sequences transmitted by neighboring BSs, followed by SSS detection. Described further herein are algorithms that result in the detection of the PSS and the SSS from a BS.
  • a CDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), cdma2000, etc.
  • UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and other variants of CDMA.
  • cdma2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standards.
  • a TDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM).
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • An OFDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM®, etc.
  • E-UTRA Evolved UTRA
  • UMB Ultra Mobile Broadband
  • IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi
  • WiMAX IEEE 802.16
  • Flash-OFDM® Flash-OFDM®
  • UTRA and E-UTRA are part of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS).
  • 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) are new releases of UMTS that use E-UTRA.
  • UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A and GSM are described in documents from an organization named "3rd Generation Partnership Project" (3GPP).
  • cdma2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named "3rd Generation Partnership Project 2" (3GPP2).
  • 3GPP2 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
  • the techniques described herein may be used for the wireless networks and radio technologies mentioned above as well as other wireless networks and radio technologies. For clarity, certain aspects of the techniques are described below for LTE, and LTE terminology is used in much of the description below.
  • FIG. 1 shows a wireless communication network 100, which may be an LTE network.
  • the wireless network 100 may include a number of evolved Node Bs (eNBs) 110 and other network entities.
  • An eNB may be a station that communicates with user equipment devices (UEs) and may also be referred to as a base station, a Node B, an access point, etc.
  • Each eNB 110 may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area.
  • the term "cell" can refer to a coverage area of an eNB and/or an eNB subsystem serving this coverage area, depending on the context in which the term is used.
  • An eNB may provide communication coverage for a macro cell, a pico cell, a femto cell, and/or other types of cell.
  • a macro cell may cover a relatively large geographic area (e.g., several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted access by UEs with service subscription.
  • a pico cell may cover a relatively small geographic area and may allow unrestricted access by UEs with service subscription.
  • a femto cell may cover a relatively small geographic area (e.g., a home) and may allow restricted access by UEs having association with the femto cell (e.g., UEs in a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG), UEs for users in the home, etc.).
  • CSG Closed Subscriber Group
  • An eNB for a macro cell may be referred to as a macro eNB.
  • An eNB for a pico cell may be referred to as a pico eNB.
  • An eNB for a femto cell may be referred to as a femto eNB or a home eNB.
  • eNBs 110a, 110b, and 110c may be macro eNBs for macro cells 102a, 102b, and 102c, respectively.
  • eNB 110x may be a pico eNB for a pico cell 102x.
  • eNBs 110y and 110z may be femto eNBs for femto cells 102y and 102z, respectively.
  • An eNB may support one or multiple (e.g., three) cells.
  • the wireless network 100 may also include relay stations.
  • a relay station is a station that receives a transmission of data and/or other information from an upstream station (e.g., an eNB or a UE) and sends a transmission of the data and/or other information to a downstream station (e.g., a UE or an eNB).
  • a relay station may also be a UE that relays transmissions for other UEs.
  • a relay station 110r may communicate with eNB 110a and a UE 120r in order to facilitate communication between eNB 110a and UE 120r.
  • a relay station may also be referred to as a relay eNB, a relay, etc.
  • the wireless network 100 may be a heterogeneous network that includes eNBs of different types, e.g., macro eNBs, pico eNBs, femto eNBs, relays, etc. These different types of eNBs may have different transmit power levels, different coverage areas, and different impact on interference in the wireless network 100.
  • macro eNBs may have a high transmit power level (e.g., 20 watts) whereas pico eNBs, femto eNBs, and relays may have a lower transmit power level (e.g., 1 watt).
  • the wireless network 100 may support synchronous or asynchronous operation.
  • the eNBs may have similar frame timing, and transmissions from different eNBs may be approximately aligned in time.
  • the eNBs may have different frame timing, and transmissions from different eNBs may not be aligned in time.
  • the techniques described herein may be used for both synchronous and asynchronous operation.
  • a network controller 130 may couple to a set of eNBs and provide coordination and control for these eNBs.
  • the network controller 130 may communicate with the eNBs 110 via a backhaul.
  • the eNBs 110 may also communicate with one another, e.g., directly or indirectly via wireless or wireline backhaul.
  • the UEs 120 may be dispersed throughout the wireless network 100, and each UE may be stationary or mobile.
  • a UE may also be referred to as a terminal, a mobile station, a subscriber unit, a station, etc.
  • a UE may be a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a tablet, etc.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • WLL wireless local loop
  • a UE may be able to communicate with macro eNBs, pico eNBs, femto eNBs, relays, etc.
  • a solid line with double arrows indicates desired transmissions between a UE and a serving eNB, which is an eNB designated to serve the UE on the downlink and/or uplink.
  • a dashed line with double arrows indicates interfering transmissions between a UE and an eNB.
  • LTE utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) on the downlink and single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) on the uplink.
  • OFDM and SC-FDM partition the system bandwidth into multiple (K) orthogonal subcarriers, which are also commonly referred to as tones, bins, etc.
  • K orthogonal subcarriers
  • Each subcarrier may be modulated with data.
  • modulation symbols are sent in the frequency domain with OFDM and in the time domain with SC-FDM.
  • the spacing between adjacent subcarriers may be fixed, and the total number of subcarriers (K) may be dependent on the system bandwidth.
  • K may be equal to 128, 256, 512, 1024, or 2048 for system bandwidth of 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10, or 20 megahertz (MHz), respectively.
  • the system bandwidth may also be partitioned into subbands.
  • a subband may cover 1.08 MHz, and there may be 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 subbands for system bandwidth of 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10, or 20 MHz, respectively.
  • FIG. 2 shows a frame structure used in LTE.
  • the transmission timeline for the downlink may be partitioned into units of radio frames.
  • Each radio frame may have a predetermined duration (e.g., 10 milliseconds (ms)) and may be partitioned into 10 subframes with indices of 0 through 9.
  • Each subframe may include two slots.
  • Each radio frame may thus include 20 slots with indices of 0 through 19.
  • the 2L symbol periods in each subframe may be assigned indices of 0 through 2L-1.
  • the available time frequency resources may be partitioned into resource blocks. Each resource block may cover N subcarriers (e.g., 12 subcarriers) in one slot.
  • an eNB may send a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) for each cell in the eNB.
  • PSS primary synchronization signal
  • SSS secondary synchronization signal
  • the primary and secondary synchronization signals may be sent in symbol periods 6 and 5, respectively, in each of subframes 0 and 5 of each radio frame with the normal cyclic prefix (CP), as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the synchronization signals may be used by UEs for cell detection and acquisition.
  • the eNB may send a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) in symbol periods 0 to 3 in slot 1 of subframe 0.
  • PBCH may carry certain system information.
  • the eNB may send a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH) in the first symbol period of each subframe, as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the PCFICH may convey the number of symbol periods (M) used for control channels, where M may be equal to 1, 2 or 3 and may change from subframe to subframe. M may also be equal to 4 for a small system bandwidth, e.g., with less than 10 resource blocks.
  • the eNB may send a Physical HARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in the first M symbol periods of each subframe (not shown in FIG. 2 ).
  • the PHICH may carry information to support hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ).
  • HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
  • the PDCCH may carry information on resource allocation for UEs and control information for downlink channels.
  • the eNB may send a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) in the remaining symbol periods of each subframe.
  • PDSCH may carry data for UEs scheduled for data transmission on the downlink.
  • the eNB may send the PSS, SSS, and PBCH in the center 1.08 MHz of the system bandwidth used by the eNB.
  • the eNB may send the PCFICH and PHICH across the entire system bandwidth in each symbol period in which these channels are sent.
  • the eNB may send the PDCCH to groups of UEs in certain portions of the system bandwidth.
  • the eNB may send the PDSCH to specific UEs in specific portions of the system bandwidth.
  • the eNB may send the PSS, SSS, PBCH, PCFICH, and PHICH in a broadcast manner to all UEs, may send the PDCCH in a unicast manner to specific UEs, and may also send the PDSCH in a unicast manner to specific UEs.
  • Each resource element may cover one subcarrier in one symbol period and may be used to send one modulation symbol, which may be a real or complex value.
  • Resource elements not used for a reference signal in each symbol period may be arranged into resource element groups (REGs).
  • Each REG may include four resource elements in one symbol period.
  • the PCFICH may occupy four REGs, which may be spaced approximately equally across frequency, in symbol period 0.
  • the PHICH may occupy three REGs, which may be spread across frequency, in one or more configurable symbol periods. For example, the three REGs for the PHICH may all belong in symbol period 0 or may be spread in symbol periods 0, 1, and 2.
  • the PDCCH may occupy 9, 18, 32, or 64 REGs, which may be selected from the available REGs, in the first M symbol periods. Only certain combinations of REGs may be allowed for the PDCCH.
  • a UE may know the specific REGs used for the PHICH and the PCFICH.
  • the UE may search different combinations of REGs for the PDCCH.
  • the number of combinations to search is typically less than the number of allowed combinations for the PDCCH.
  • An eNB may send the PDCCH to the UE in any of the combinations that the UE will search.
  • FIG. 2A shows an exemplary format 200A for the uplink in LTE.
  • the available resource blocks for the uplink may be partitioned into a data section and a control section.
  • the control section may be formed at the two edges of the system bandwidth and may have a configurable size.
  • the resource blocks in the control section may be assigned to UEs for transmission of control information.
  • the data section may include all resource blocks not included in the control section.
  • the design in FIG. 2A results in the data section including contiguous subcarriers, which may allow a single UE to be assigned all of the contiguous subcarriers in the data section.
  • a UE may be assigned resource blocks in the control section to transmit control information to an eNB.
  • the UE may also be assigned resource blocks in the data section to transmit data to the Node B.
  • the UE may transmit control information in a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) 210a, 210b on the assigned resource blocks in the control section.
  • the UE may transmit data or both data and control information in a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) 220a, 220b on the assigned resource blocks in the data section.
  • An uplink transmission may span both slots of a subframe and may hop across frequency as shown in FIG. 2A .
  • a UE may be within the coverage of multiple eNBs.
  • One of these eNBs may be selected to serve the UE.
  • the serving eNB may be selected based on various criteria such as received power, path loss, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), etc.
  • a UE may operate in a dominant interference scenario in which the UE may observe high interference from one or more interfering eNBs.
  • a dominant interference scenario may occur due to restricted association.
  • UE 120y may be close to femto eNB 110y and may have high received power for eNB 110y.
  • UE 120y may not be able to access femto eNB 110y due to restricted association and may then connect to macro eNB 110c with lower received power (as shown in FIG. 1 ) or to femto eNB 110z also with lower received power (not shown in FIG. 1 ).
  • UE 120y may then observe high interference from femto eNB 110y on the downlink and may also cause high interference to eNB 110y on the uplink.
  • a dominant interference scenario may also occur due to range extension, which is a scenario in which a UE connects to an eNB with lower path loss and lower SNR among all eNBs detected by the UE.
  • range extension is a scenario in which a UE connects to an eNB with lower path loss and lower SNR among all eNBs detected by the UE.
  • UE 120x may detect macro eNB 110b and pico eNB 110x and may have lower received power for eNB 110x than eNB 110b. Nevertheless, it may be desirable for UE 120x to connect to pico eNB 110x if the path loss for eNB 110x is lower than the path loss for macro eNB 110b. This may result in less interference to the wireless network for a given data rate for UE 120x.
  • a frequency band is a range of frequencies that may be used for communication and may be given by (i) a center frequency and a bandwidth or (ii) a lower frequency and an upper frequency.
  • a frequency band may also be referred to as a band, a frequency channel, etc.
  • the frequency bands for different eNBs may be selected such that a UE can communicate with a weaker eNB in a dominant interference scenario while allowing a strong eNB to communicate with its UEs.
  • An eNB may be classified as a "weak" eNB or a "strong" eNB based on the relative received power of signals from the eNB received at a UE (and not based on the transmit power level of the eNB).
  • FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a design of a base station or an eNB 110 and a UE 120, which may be one of the base stations/eNBs and one of the UEs in FIG. 1 .
  • the eNB 110 may be macro eNB 110c in FIG. 1
  • UE 120 may be UE 120y.
  • the eNB 110 may also be a base station of some other type.
  • the eNB 110 may be equipped with T antennas 334a through 334t, and the UE 120 may be equipped with R antennas 352a through 352r, where in general T ⁇ 1 and R ⁇ 1.
  • a transmit processor 320 may receive data from a data source 312 and control information from a controller/processor 340.
  • the control information may be for the PBCH, PCFICH, PHICH, PDCCH, etc.
  • the data may be for the PDSCH, etc.
  • the transmit processor 320 may process (e.g., encode and symbol map) the data and control information to obtain data symbols and control symbols, respectively.
  • the transmit processor 320 may also generate reference symbols, e.g., for the PSS, SSS, and cell-specific reference signal.
  • a transmit (TX) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processor 330 may perform spatial processing (e.g., precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, and/or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide T output symbol streams to T modulators (MODs) 332a through 332t.
  • Each modulator 332 may process a respective output symbol stream (e.g., for OFDM, etc.) to obtain an output sample stream.
  • Each modulator 332 may further process (e.g., convert to analog, amplify, filter, and upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain a downlink signal.
  • T downlink signals from modulators 332a through 332t may be transmitted via T antennas 334a through 334t, respectively.
  • antennas 352a through 352r may receive the downlink signals from the eNB 110 and may provide received signals to demodulators (DEMODs) 354a through 354r, respectively.
  • Each demodulator 354 may condition (e.g., filter, amplify, downconvert, and digitize) a respective received signal to obtain input samples.
  • Each demodulator 354 may further process the input samples (e.g., for OFDM, etc.) to obtain received symbols.
  • a MIMO detector 356 may obtain received symbols from all R demodulators 354a through 354r, perform MIMO detection on the received symbols, if applicable, and provide detected symbols.
  • a receive processor 358 may process (e.g., demodulate, deinterleave, and decode) the detected symbols, provide decoded data for the UE 120 to a data sink 360, and provide decoded control information to a controller/processor 380.
  • a transmit processor 364 may receive and process data (e.g., for the PUSCH) from a data source 362 and control information (e.g., for the PUCCH) from the controller/processor 380.
  • the transmit processor 364 may also generate reference symbols for a reference signal.
  • the symbols from the transmit processor 364 may be precoded by a TX MIMO processor 366 if applicable, further processed by modulators 354a through 354r (e.g., for SC-FDM, etc.), and transmitted to the eNB 110.
  • the uplink signals from the UE 120 may be received by antennas 334, processed by demodulators 332, detected by a MIMO detector 336 if applicable, and further processed by a receive processor 338 to obtain decoded data and control information sent by the UE 120.
  • the receive processor 338 may provide the decoded data to a data sink 339 and the decoded control information to the controller/processor 340.
  • the controllers/processors 340, 380 may direct the operation at the eNB 110 and the UE 120, respectively.
  • the processor 340 and/or other processors and modules at the base station 110 may perform or direct the execution of various processes for the techniques described herein.
  • the processor 380 and/or other processors and modules at the UE 120 may also perform or direct the execution of the functional blocks illustrated in FIG. 7 , and/or other processes for the techniques described herein.
  • the memories 342 and 382 may store data and program codes for base station 110 and UE 120, respectively.
  • a scheduler 344 may schedule UEs for data transmission on the downlink and/or uplink.
  • Synchronization signals are transmitted in the center 62 resource elements (REs) around the DC tone to help detect cells.
  • the synchronization signals comprise two parts: a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) and a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS).
  • PSS Primary Synchronization Signal
  • SSS Secondary Synchronization Signal
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example PSS sequence 402 and alternating SSS sequences 404 0 , 404 1 with a periodicity of 5 ms, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the PSS allows a UE to obtain frame timing modulo 5 ms and part of the physical layer cell identifier (cell ID), and specifically cell id modulo 3.
  • cell ID physical layer cell identifier
  • Three different PSS sequences exist with each sequence mapping to a disjoint group of 168 cell IDs. Based on Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences, the PSS sequence is chosen from one of 3 sequences based on a PSS Index Cell ID modulo 3. The same sequence is transmitted every 5 ms as shown in FIG. 4 .
  • ZC Zadoff-Chu
  • the SSS is used by the UE to detect the LTE frame timing modulo 10 ms and to obtain the cell ID.
  • the SSS is transmitted twice in each 10 ms radio frame as depicted in FIG. 4 .
  • the SSS sequences are based on maximum length sequences, known as M-sequences, and each SSS sequence is constructed by interleaving, in the frequency-domain, two length-31 Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)-modulated sequences.
  • BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
  • a UE may only need to search up to 168 sequences.
  • CP Extended Cyclic Prefix
  • Normal CP normal CP modes
  • TDD Time Division Duplex
  • FDD Frequency Division Duplex
  • a typical searching operation may involve first locating the PSS sequences transmitted by neighboring eNBs (i.e., determining the timing and the PSS index), followed by SSS detection for the found PSS Index around the determined timing.
  • Both PSS and SSS detection may involve using samples over multiple bursts to improve the chances of detection and reduce false detection rates.
  • Using multiple bursts provides time diversity. Spacing the bursts far apart improves the time diversity, but increases the time taken for detection.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting the physical layer cell ID of a base station of a wireless network (e.g., eNB of an LTE network) by using synchronization signals provided by the eNB (e.g., PSS and SSS). Described further herein are modem baseband algorithms that result in the detection of the PSS and the SSS from an eNB.
  • inventions of the present disclosure provide techniques for finding an LTE signal with a certain center-frequency in a band of interest.
  • the UE may detect at least the following unknowns during initial acquisition: frame timing, physical layer ID, cell ID group, and the cyclic prefix (CP) length used in the frame.
  • the UE may use two synchronization signals, the PSS and the SSS, which may be transmitted by an eNB every 5 ms, as described above.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an algorithm that a UE may follow for the initial acquisition of a cell in a wireless network, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the UE may sample a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence (e.g., at least 5 ms worth of samples per receiver antenna, or samples down-sampled to 1.92 MHz).
  • the UE may store complex input samples in a buffer of at least 9600 samples.
  • the UE may perform PSS detection in a current half-frame (HF) by generating detection metrics based on the three reference PSS sequences and all 9600 timing hypotheses.
  • HF current half-frame
  • a number of frequency hypotheses may be applied to the signal prior to the PSS detection, in an effort to avoid the risk of not being able to detect signals having a low SNR.
  • PSS correlation may be performed on each hypothesis, and timing detection may be performed on the hypothesis with a better metric.
  • the UE may calculate SNR metrics based on the detected PSS and noncoherently combine the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous HFs (e.g., to improve reliability).
  • the UE may sort the PSS from HFs in descending order of PSS SNRs and pick the top M peaks.
  • the UE may analyze the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information. After each half-frame (e.g., 5 ms), the UE may perform the following steps for each of the M candidates: frequency offset estimation based on PSS (at 508); frequency compensation of samples based on the frequency offset estimate (at 510); and SSS detection (at 512).
  • the UE may estimate a frequency offset by evaluating SNR metrics based on the detected PSS, and perform frequency compensation of the sampled sequence based on the estimated frequency offset. Therefore, the frequency may be compensated prior to SSS detection.
  • the UE may perform SSS detection every half-frame by analyzing the sample sequence (or the frequency-compensated sampled sequence) using the timing information, with the union of cells detected across half-frames taken at the end (e.g., to improve reliability).
  • the SSS detection SNR metric exceeds a threshold, the cell ID, its CP, and timing may be considered as detected, and PBCH decoding may be attempted on this candidate (at 516).
  • a joint frequency offset may be calculated (at 515) by evaluating SNR metrics based on the detected PSS and the detected SSS.
  • the UE may determine whether there are any remaining candidates from the M candidates (at 517) and continue the above-described algorithm. After exhausting the M candidates, if the SSS detection does not yield any candidates, the UE may continue the above-described algorithm until N HFs of PSS SNR metric noncoherent combining are exhausted (at 518). If no cell is found after all the above SSS detection attempts, the UE may determine that there is no cell present on the carrier frequency (at 520).
  • the UE may be camped on an LTE cell (i.e., serving cell).
  • LTE cell i.e., serving cell.
  • embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for finding an LTE cell, different from the cell on which the UE is camped on, so that the UE may monitor the measurements of different cells in the vicinity.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an algorithm that a UE may follow for performing a neighboring cell search, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the UE may sample a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence (e.g., at least 5 ms worth of samples per receiver antenna, or samples down-sampled to 1.92 MHz).
  • the UE may store complex input samples in a buffer of at least 9600 samples.
  • the UE may perform PSS detection in a current HF by generating detection metrics based on the three reference PSS sequences and all 9600 timing hypotheses.
  • the UE may calculate SNR metrics based on the detected PSS and noncoherently combine the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous HFs.
  • SSS detection may occur every HF, similar to the initial acquisition algorithm illustrated in FIG. 5 .
  • SSS detection may be attempted on the candidate peaks, as described above.
  • the UE may sort the PSS from HFs in descending order of PSS SNRs and pick the top M peaks (at 506), and perform SSS detection on each of the M candidates (at 512).
  • the SSS detection SNR metric exceeds a threshold, the cell ID, its CP, and timing may be considered as detected.
  • the UE may determine that there is no cell present on that carrier frequency (at 604).
  • FIG. 7 illustrates example operations 700 for detecting a base station of a wireless network, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the operations 700 may be performed, for example, by a UE. Detecting the base station may be for initial acquisition of the base station or while performing a neighbor search.
  • the UE may sample a received signal from one or more receiver antennas to obtain a sampled sequence. For example, the UE may sample at least 5 ms worth of samples per receiver antenna, or samples down-sampled to 1.92 MHz.
  • the UE may analyze the sampled sequence to detect a PSS in a current half-frame.
  • the UE may calculate SNR metrics based on the detected PSS.
  • the UE may combine the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous half-frames. For example, the UE may noncoherently combine the calculated SNR metrics with the SNR metrics from the one or more previous HFs in an effort to improve reliability.
  • the UE may analyze the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information.
  • analyzing the combined SNR metrics includes sorting the calculated SNR metrics and the SNR metrics based on the PSS detected from the one or more previous half-frames, retaining one or more of the largest SNR metrics based on the sorting, and analyzing a first one of the largest SNR metrics to obtain the timing information.
  • the UE may analyze the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a SSS. For certain aspects, the UE may estimate a frequency offset by evaluating the first one of the largest SNR metrics and, prior to detecting the SSS, the UE may perform frequency compensation of the sampled sequence based on the estimated frequency offset.
  • the UE may calculate SNR metrics based on the detected SSS and compare the SNR metrics based on the detected SSS with a threshold value. If the SNR metrics based on the detected SSS is less than the threshold value, the UE may detect the SSS based on a second one of the largest SNR metrics based on the PSS detected from the one or more previous half-frames.
  • the UE may calculate a joint frequency offset by evaluating SNR metrics based on the detected PSS and the detected SSS.
  • the SSS detection may occur every half-frame.
  • the SSS detection may occur at an end of combining SNR metrics based on PSS for one or more half-frames.
  • a transceiver (TX/RX) 701A may receive a signal at one or more receiver antennas.
  • a sampling unit 702A may sample the received signal to obtain a sampled sequence.
  • An analyzing unit 704A may analyze the sampled sequence to detect a PSS in a current half-frame.
  • a calculating unit 706A may calculate SNR metrics based on the detected PSS.
  • a combining unit 708A may combine the calculated SNR metrics with SNR metrics from one or more previous half-frames.
  • An analyzing unit 710A may analyze the combined SNR metrics to obtain timing information.
  • An analyzing unit 712A may analyze the sampled sequence using the timing information to detect a SSS.
  • the various operations of methods described above may be performed by any suitable means capable of performing the corresponding functions.
  • the means may include various hardware and/or software component(s) and/or module(s), including, but not limited to a circuit, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or processor.
  • means for transmitting or means for sending may comprise a transmitter, a modulator 354, and/or an antenna 352 of the UE 120 depicted in FIG. 3 or a transmitter, a modulator 332, and/or an antenna 334 of the eNB 110 shown in FIG. 3 .
  • Means for receiving may comprise a receiver, a demodulator 354, and/or an antenna 352 of the UE 120 depicted in FIG.
  • Means for processing, means for determining, means for sampling, and/or means for cancelling out may comprise a processing system, which may include at least one processor, such as the transmit processor 320, the receive processor 338, or the controller/processor 340 of the eNB 110 or the receive processor 358, the transmit processor 364, or the controller/processor 380 of the UE 120 illustrated in FIG. 3 .
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array
  • a general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine.
  • a processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
  • a software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.
  • An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such that the processor can read information from, and/or write information to, the storage medium.
  • the storage medium may be integral to the processor.
  • the processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.
  • the ASIC may reside in a user terminal.
  • the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.
  • the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.
  • Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another.
  • a storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.
  • such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code means in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor. Also, any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium.
  • Disk and disc includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.

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  1. Ein Verfahren (700) für drahtlose Kommunikation durch eine Benutzerausrüstung, UE, wobei das Verfahren (700) umfasst:
    Abtasten (702) eines empfangenen Signals von einer oder von mehreren Empfängerantennen, um eine abgetastete Sequenz zu erhalten;
    Analysieren (704) der abgetasteten Sequenz, um eine primäre Synchronisationssequenz, PSS, in einem aktuellen Halb-Frame zu detektieren;
    Berechnen (706) von Signal-zu-Rausch-Verhältnis-SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten PSS;
    Kombinieren (708) der berechneten SNR-Metriken mit SNR-Metriken basierend auf PSS, die von einem oder von mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames detektiert wurden; gekennzeichnet durch
    Analysieren (710) der kombinierten SNR-Metriken, um Timing-Informationen zu erhalten, durch Sortieren der berechneten SNR-Metriken und der SNR-Metriken basierend auf den PSS, die von dem einen oder den mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames detektiert wurden, durch Beibehalten von einer oder von mehreren der größten SNR-Metriken basierend auf dem Sortieren und durch Analysieren einer ersten der größten SNR-Metriken; wobei das Verfahren ferner dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass es umfasst
    Analysieren (712) der abgetasteten Sequenz unter Verwendung der Timing-Informationen, um eine sekundäre Synchronisationssequenz, SSS, zu detektieren;
    Berechnen von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS; und
    Vergleichen der SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS mit einem Schwellenwert, wobei, wenn die SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS kleiner als der Schwellenwert sind, und
    Detektieren der SSS basierend auf anderen PSS-SNR-Metriken, die von einer oder von mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames erhalten und sortiert wurden.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei das Detektieren der SSS jeden Halb-Frame oder an einem Ende des Kombinierens von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der PSS für einen oder für mehrere Halb-Frames erfolgt.
  3. Verfahren (700) nach Anspruch 2, wobei das Detektieren der PSS und das Detektieren der SSS einem Identifizieren von LTE-Zellen dient, die benachbart zu einer bedienenden Zelle sind.
  4. Verfahren (700) nach irgendeinem vorhergehenden Anspruch, wobei das Verfahren (700) ferner umfasst:
    Berechnen eines gemeinsamen Frequenzversatzes durch Auswerten von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten PSS und der detektierten SSS.
  5. Verfahren (700) nach irgendeinem vorhergehenden Anspruch, wobei das Verfahren (700) ferner umfasst:
    Schätzen eines Frequenzversatzes durch Auswerten der ersten der größten SNR-Metriken; und
    vor dem Detektieren des SSS, Durchführen einer Frequenzkompensation der abgetasteten Sequenz basierend auf dem geschätzten Frequenzversatz.
  6. Eine Vorrichtung (700A) für drahtlose Kommunikation durch eine Benutzerausrüstung, UE, wobei die Vorrichtung (700A) umfasst:
    Mittel (702A) zum Abtasten eines empfangenen Signals von einer oder von mehreren Empfängerantennen, um eine abgetastete Sequenz zu erhalten;
    Mittel (704A) zum Analysieren der abgetasteten Sequenz, um eine primäre Synchronisationssequenz, PSS, in einem aktuellen Halb-Frame zu detektieren;
    Mittel (706A) zum Berechnen der Signal-zu-Rausch-Verhältnis-SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten PSS;
    Mittel (708A) zum Kombinieren der berechneten SNR-Metriken mit SNR-Metriken basierend auf PSS, die von einem oder von mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames detektiert wurden; gekennzeichnet durch Mittel (710A) zum Analysieren der kombinierten SNR-Metriken, um Timing-Informationen zu erhalten, umfassend Mittel zum Sortieren der berechneten SNR-Metriken und der SNR-Metriken basierend auf den PSS, die von dem einen oder den mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames detektiert wurden, Mittel zum Beibehalten von einer oder von mehreren der größten SNR-Metriken basierend auf dem Sortieren und Mittel zum Analysieren einer ersten der größten SNR-Metriken; wobei die Vorrichtung ferner dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sie umfasst
    Mittel (712A) zum Analysieren der abgetasteten Sequenz unter Verwendung der Timing-Informationen, um eine sekundäre Synchronisationssequenz, SSS, zu detektieren; und
    Mittel zum Berechnen von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS; und
    Mittel zum Berechnen von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS mit einem Schwellenwert; und
    Mittel zum Detektieren der SSS basierend auf anderen PSS-SNR-Metriken, die von einer oder von mehreren vorherigen Halb-Frames erhalten und sortiert wurden, wenn die SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten SSS kleiner als der Schwellenwert sind.
  7. Vorrichtung (700A) nach Anspruch 6, wobei die Vorrichtung (700A) ferner umfasst:
    Mittel zum Berechnen eines gemeinsamen Frequenzversatzes durch Auswerten von SNR-Metriken basierend auf der detektierten PSS und der detektierten SSS.
  8. Vorrichtung (700A) nach Anspruch 6 oder 7, wobei die Vorrichtung (700A) ferner umfasst:
    Mittel zum Schätzen eines Frequenzversatzes durch Auswerten der ersten der größten SNR-Metriken; und
    Mittel zum Durchführen einer Frequenzkompensation der abgetasteten Sequenz basierend auf dem geschätzten Frequenzversatz vor dem Detektieren des SSS.
  9. Ein Computerprogrammprodukt für drahtlose Kommunikation durch eine Benutzerausrüstung, UE, umfassend ein computerlesbares Medium, das darauf gespeicherte Anweisungen enthält, wobei die Anweisungen durch einen oder durch mehrere Prozessoren ausführbar sind, um die Schritte nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6 auszuführen.
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